I worry a lot about taking care of my dependents, all those perfectly ordinary middle-class preoccupations. — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
People don't paint for the hell of it. It's a deeply seated thing - a preoccupation - the whole of one's life. — Roger de Grey Copy Share Image
I believe that an orderly universe, one indifferent to human preoccupations, in which everything has an explanation even if we still have… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
When the mind is kept away from its preoccupations, it becomes quiet. If you do not disturb this quiet and stay in… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
There's something about my films; they're informed by my sensibility. I have the same preoccupations, the same interests... there's just something in… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
You want a novel to tap as directly as possible into your most unspeakable preoccupations. And in America, in particular, cricket is… — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
Winterson has her own unmistakeable voice, tuned to express her obsessional preoccupation with sexual passion raised to the power of revealed religion.… — Victoria Glendinning Copy Share Image
The prospective colonization of space responds, not to the particular problems of the American nation, or of any other nation, but to… — Louis J. Halle Copy Share Image
War on terrorism defines the central preoccupation of the United States in the world today, and it does reflect in my view… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
Religion is not a matter of God, church, holy cause, etc. These are but accessories. The source of religious preoccupation is in… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Joy is all there is. The rest is a preoccupation of the ego, unworthy of your holy mind. — Doreen Virtue Copy Share Image
The smashing of idols is in itself such a preoccupation that it is almost impossible for the iconoclast to look clearly into… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Self-absorption in all its forms kills empathy, let alone compassion. When we focus on ourselves, our world contracts as our problems and… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
He realised, more vividly than ever before, that art had two constant, two unending preoccupations: it is always meditating upon death and… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
True doctrine, understood, changes attitudes and behavior. The study of the doctrines of the gospel will improve behavior quicker than a study… — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
It is the poet and philosopher who provide the community of objectives in which the artist participates. Their chief preoccupation, like the… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
Choice or freedom of choice is just an existential concern. But for photographers, it's a lifetime's preoccupation. — Marc Riboud Copy Share Image
“Our passionate preoccupation with the sun, the stars and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Proving that profit is economically and morally justifiable, rather than the result of exploitation, has been a central preoccupation of neoclassical economists. — Jim Stanford Copy Share Image
Even a small, everyday lie is a clue to the personality and preoccupations of the liar, like a dream or any other… — Helen McCloy Copy Share Image
To write history one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary must… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
I didn't have any close relationship with him because, although [William Edward Burghardt] DuBois may not have been as egocentric - I… — Ella Baker Copy Share Image
By sharing something, I realized that I'm not alone, that there are a lot of people that share with me the same… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
If rewards do not work, what does? I recommend that employers pay workers well and fairly and then do everything possible to… — Alfie Kohn Copy Share Image
Our lives are lived in intense and anxious struggle, in a swirl of speed and aggression, in competing, grasping, possessing and achieving,… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
